{"id":8474,"date":"2025-05-25T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2025-05-25T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:05:38","slug":"five-skiers-found-dead-near-swiss-italian-border-in-valais-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=8474","title":{"rendered":"Five skiers found dead near Swiss-Italian border in Valais Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Five skiers have been found dead near the Rimpfischhorn mountain in southwest Switzerland, close to the Italian border, authorities confirmed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services launched a search operation on Saturday after two skiers reported spotting a set of abandoned skis at an altitude of around 4,000 metres. Rescue teams, supported by helicopters and ground personnel, later discovered the bodies on the Adlergletscher glacier.<\/p>\n<p>According to Swiss broadcaster RTS, three of the victims were found approximately 500 metres from the location of the skis, while the remaining two were located on a small, snow-covered ridge around 200 metres higher.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the victims have not yet been released, and formal identification is under way. The regional prosecutor&#8217;s office in Canton Valais said an investigation has been opened to determine the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five skiers have been found dead near the Rimpfischhorn mountain in southwest Switzerland, close to the Italian border, authorities confirmed on Sunday. Emergency services launched a search operation on Saturday after two skiers reported spotting a set of abandoned skis at an altitude of around 4,000 metres. Rescue teams, supported by helicopters and ground personnel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}